Cortes Island

M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Transformation

With Chepximiya Siyam' Hereditary Chief Janice George, Squamish Nation, Skwetsimeltxw Willard ‘Buddy’ Joseph, Squamish Nation, Ta7talíya Michelle Nahanee, Squamish Nation and Lloyd James Attig, Muskoday First Nation, Plains Cree

Open Dates
Cortes Island
This program is being rescheduled, please sign up to be notified of the new dates. // Are you ready to unlearn supremacy and apply Indigenous teachings to your work? Learn new ways of being from Squamish Elders and Decolonial Facilitators in this 5-day immersive training and transformation. M̓i tel'nexw Leadership Transformation is an experiential learning designed with an appreciative approach that responds to improving what is currently lacking in “cultural competency” training.

Staff Accommodation

Flexible Dates
Cortes Island

Work Exchange

Package Dates
Cortes Island
Support our Cortes campus and get an intimate behind-the-scenes Hollyhock experience with our month-long work exchange program.

Staff Accommodation 2022

Flexible Dates
Cortes Island

Staff Accommodation

Flexible Dates
Cortes Island

2024 Hollyhock Holiday

Flexible Dates

INTERNAL HOLIDAY PAGE Reconnect to yourself and nature in our spectacular West Coast island setting. Take a breath of fresh air outside of the city, and enjoy the serenity and beauty of our local landscape. Our holiday packages include: Accommodations A variety of accommodations are located throughout our lush campus, ranging in price to suit […]

2025 Hollyhock Holiday

Flexible Dates

INTERNAL HOLIDAY PAGE Reconnect to yourself and nature in our spectacular West Coast island setting. Take a breath of fresh air outside of the city, and enjoy the serenity and beauty of our local landscape. Our holiday packages include: Accommodations A variety of accommodations are located throughout our lush campus, ranging in price to suit […]

Places, Sounds, Portals, Worlds: A Soundscape Ecology Immersion

With Rebecca Bruton and Edzi’u

June 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Open new portals to creativity and collaboration amidst the planetary spheres of sound, music, and landscape. In this interdisciplinary eco-arts residency, participants will be introduced to conceptual ideas about collaborating ethically with landscapes and soundscapes, and learn a variety of approaches for generating sound, music, text, and performance compositions with/in the local Cortes Island surroundings. […]

Dance of Connection

With Bettina Rothe

June 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Come home to yourself, find connection and nourishment in community, and with the land. Together we take refuge in our primary language "rhythm", and find belonging in the dance. Expand your repertoire of how you can connect with others on the dance floor and in life. Release old patterns of relating that no longer serve […]

From Fear and Overwhelm to Power and Love

With Deepa Narayan, Eric Mulholland and Peggy Taylor

June 8 - 12, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

FROM FEAR AND OVERWHELM TO POWER AND LOVE Everyday as we are confronted with chaos and collapse, we can become paralyzed in fear and anxiety. And yet, this is the time we are called to be our most powerful selves to stand for a world in which our children, our communities, and all beings can […]

Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (June)

With Bill Ophoff

June 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

The natural world is your classroom as you hike, kayak, and voyage amid the wild beauty of Cortes Island. Discover the flora and fauna of both land and sea along with local history and geological phenomena as you adventure forth with Hollyhock's knowledgeable, fun-loving naturalist. Explore ancient forests, sandy beaches, colourful tide pools, windswept bluffs, […]

Self-Led Retreat (early June)

June 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A self-led retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your days […]

Mindful Self-Compassion

With Megan Prager and Martin Thomson-Jones, PhD

June 13 - 18, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Application is required before registering. You may apply here. This 5-day residential program is an intensive form of the internationally recognized, eight-session Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) training developed by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is open to laypeople and professionals alike. Participants will learn to: understand the science of self-compassion, practice self-compassion in daily life, […]

Qi Medicine: A Silent Qigong and Tea Ceremony Retreat

With Stephanie Nosco and Catherine (Cat) Reynolds

June 13 - 18, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Experience the medicine of qigong, tea, and nature on this transformative inner journey back to yourself.  Join Qigong teacher, author, and psychotherapist Stephanie Nosco, alongside tea ceremonialist Catherine Reynolds, for this special silent retreat that will explore the art of Qigong and the mindful practice of tea ceremony. We will practice in social silence, encouraging […]

Mindfulness in Medicine: Heal Thyself Retreat

With Mark Sherman, M.D.

June 13 - 18, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Internal program page for Mark Sherman's group retreat. Participants can book using the 'register as guest' link. This page will not go live on the website.  Daily Schedule A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.  

Unwind: Yamuna® Body Rolling & Essential Somatics®

With Namchi Bazar

June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Release pain and restrictions for a total body awakening and rejuvenation. Explore two complementary modalities to support your journey of self-discovery and self-healing. Let go of unproductive holding patterns as you develop effective body-wellness routines that are easy to incorporate into your home practice. Focus on foundational movements that help you exercise without pain and […]

Coastal Foraging Adventure

With Robin Kort

June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Forage for wild food and cook with professional forager, cookbook author and sommelier Chef Robin Kort of Swallow Tail Culinary Adventures. Connect to the food of the coastal ecosystem on Cortes Island from forest to sea. Foraging at the sea tunes your senses to the ebb and flow of the tides, teaching us to time […]

Pure Awareness Group Retreat

June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Internal program page for Carmon Frick's group retreat. Participants can book using the 'register as guest' link. This page will not go live on the website.  Daily Schedule A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.  

Self-Led Retreat (mid June)

June 18 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Looking for a space to unplug, unwind, and slow down? A self-led retreat invites you to step out of the busy rhythm of life and into a gentler pace - without schedules, without obligations, and without taking a program. This is your time to rest, restore, and reconnect with your true self. Spend your days […]

Cancelled: Tzeporah and Chris: Vow Renewal

June 20 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 19, 2025.

Internal program page for guests of Chris and Tzeporah. Participants can book using the 'register as guest' link. This page will not go live on the website.     

Wild Soma Being and Becoming: Embodied Practices for Collective Thriving

With Andrea Nann, Julia Aplin, Roula Said and Shannon Litzenberger

June 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

In this time of intersecting social, political, and planetary crises, how do we embrace and honour all that is arising in us as bodies? What if we listen closely to what we feel in our hearts, what we know in our bones? Can we resonate care and connection across our differences, tuning into our sense […]

Raise Your Vibe With Reiki: Levels 1 & 2

With Fleur Choy

June 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Awaken your healing powers and expose your light to the world. If you have felt sensitive your entire life and feel ready to fully embrace your gifts, or if you are already a healing practitioner and are seeking to diversify and establish yourself as a multidimensional healer, this training is for you. We also welcome […]

Contemplative Mind, Spontaneous Brush: Ink, Colour and Japanese Washi Papers

With Heather Midori Yamada

June 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Relax body, breath and mind with short guided meditations and simple perceptual exercises. Follow brushwork demonstrations using Japanese sumi ink and watercolour on various Japanese washi papers (provided). Inspired by the natural beauty of Cortes Island, we will explore  mixed media approaches of layering, tearing and collaging. Deep intuitive and directed studies lead to personal […]

Being Human Takes Practice

With Jeff Warren

July 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Join writer and meditation teacher Jeff Warren for a journey through the core skills of meditation practice and what they have to teach us about being human. These skills lie at the headwaters of mental and emotional and spiritual health. Through a mix of guided, seated and movement meditation, nature practice, small group sharing and […]

More-Than-Human Rights: Pushing the Boundaries of Law, Science & Storytelling to Re-Animate the World

With Monica Gagliano, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Cosmo Sheldrake and Merlin Sheldrake

July 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Explore the ideas and actions on rights of nature that are helping re-enchant the world in a stunning natural setting with César Rodríguez-Garavito, Merlin Sheldrake, Monica Gagliano, Cosmo Sheldrake and the More-Than-Human Rights collective. What does it mean to treat animals, plants, fungi, rivers, forests, oceans, and other more-than-human beings as subjects of rights? Through […]

Dancing from the Inside Out

With Margie Gillis

July 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Move into your body’s experiential wisdom and reveal the soul in motion. Refine your sensitivity to the connection between thought, feeling, spirit and body as you listen in to your body’s inner wisdom, impulses, conversations and emotions. Becoming sensitive to and engaging with this inner life provides information both for expanding well-being, as well as […]

Singing in the Vocal River

With Rhiannon

July 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Hear your own song and learn new ones as you find your place in the world of music and invention. Co-create vocal magic in a safe, dynamic circle of singers, delving into the possibilities of spontaneous composition and the language of storytelling. Working alone, in pairs, and in ensemble, meld intuition and invention with skill […]

Ebb & Flow: Kayaking & Yoga Practice (July)

With Kai Harvey

July 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Immerse yourself in the rhythms of the natural world and the ebb and flow of the Salish Sea.  Hollyhock, located on the southern coastline of Cortes Island (on the unceded land of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla’amin), and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations) is an ideal basecamp and launch point for kayaking adventures. Against […]

Pwātamowin - the act of dreaming - A Yogic retreat

With Malina Dawn

July 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Pwātamowin is a Cree word meaning “the act of dreaming.” But this is not the kind of dreaming you do when you sleep; it is akin to catching visions. This planet needs more healed people and a big part of that process is us being able to catch a beautiful and powerful healing vision for […]

Slow Art, Somatic Practice, and Creative Rest

With Shauna Kaendo, Registered Art Therapist | BFA, RCAT and Trudi Smith, Registered Clinical Counsellor | MC, MA, PhD

July 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Being in conversation with art, process, and our bodies. In this therapeutic arts program, we offer a blend of creative care practices…getting curious about what that can look and feel like, both individually and in community. Through creative meanderings with solo and collective art-making processes like bilateral drawing, stick brush making, sculptural wrapping, watercolour and […]

Living the Legacy: Honoring the Life & Teachings of Atum O’Kane

With Margie Gillis, Kairn Mahon Carrington, Oriane Lee Johnston and Steven Flynn

July 11 - 16, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Led by a group of Atum O'Kane's students and soul friends, journey deeper into the practices shared by Atum and be held in sacred community.  We know from experience there is exponential power in doing these practices as a collective, in sacred space. Now is the time, as his son Emmanuel reminds us, "to put […]

Women+ in Climate: Leading with Light

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

July 16 - 20, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
The path forward requires both resilience and community. Women+ in Climate is an invitational gathering for women and gender-diverse leaders in climate and nature to align to their deepest wisdom in a heart-centered space, guided by love, connection, and justice. Co-hosted by Hollyhock, Tzeporah Berman (Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative), Zainab Salbi (Daughters for Earth), Osprey Orielle Lake (WECAN),

Radical Dharma: Conversation

With Rev. angel Kyodo williams Roshi

July 20 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

It’s time to create the conditions that reimagine a path of healing, reconnect with authentic community, and manifest true justice. Radical dharma (“complete truth”) is a way to enter the critical conversation about how the legacy of racial injustice and white supremacy plays out and prevents our collective awakening. We can only accomplish shifts in […]

Four Agreements for a Better Life

With don Jose Ruiz and don Miguel Ruiz Jr.

July 20 - 24, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

"Everything we do is based on agreements we have made - agreements with ourselves, with other people, with God, with life. But the most important agreements are the ones we make with ourselves. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible. One single agreement is […]

Discover Cortes: Adventures in Nature (July)

With Bill Ophoff

July 20 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

The natural world is your classroom as you hike, kayak, and sail amid the wild beauty of Cortes Island. Discover the flora and fauna of both land and sea along with local history and geological phenomena as you adventure forth with Hollyhock's knowledgeable, fun-loving naturalist. Explore ancient forests, sandy beaches, colourful tide pools, windswept bluffs, […]

Nature Paints Itself

With Jeremy Herndl

July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

What if the world created us humans to speak its names, sing its rivers and winds? What if nature paints itself, using our deft human hands and the tactility of sight to emulate its textures, colours and spaces? In this workshop we shall enter the space of nature, the garden, forest and ocean and paint […]

Between the Human Animal & the Animate Earth

With David Abram

July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between ourselves and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing biosphere? The deepening contortions of climate change – intensifying droughts, monster floods, flaring wildfires and heart-wrenching geopolitical cataclysms – all ensure that our species is tumbling toward a sea change of immense […]

Locus Amoenus: Exploring Organic and Artificial Systems in Art


With Rebecca Brewer and Veit Laurent Kurz

July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

How can we, as physical beings in an increasingly digital world, reclaim the intimate, tactile gestures of our hands? Can we react to the vast, almost cosmic scale of artificial intelligence with grounded, human-centered creative acts? In this hands-on, visual arts workshop, participants explore the underlying connections between living systems and technological processes, uncovering innovative […]

Becoming One with the Spirit of the Drum

With Gordy Onayemi Ryan and Zoë Ryan

July 25 - 30, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Activate the Fire in your hands, the Beat in your feet, and the Song in your Heart on this soulful journey in Rhythm in the iconic Olatunji Hall. Drum, dance and sing to increase the flow of vital energy in your body and open your ears to the beauty of rhythms and songs from many […]

Science, Art, Sound & the Sacred

With Merlin Sheldrake and Cosmo Sheldrake

July 30 - August 3, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Explore the entanglements between science, art, sound, and the sacred in a beautiful, wild setting. What we call art and science both arise from our faculties of imagination, wonder, and curiosity. We will spend part of our time outdoors – in gardens, on seashores and in forests – connecting with the more-than-human world and bringing […]

2025 Program Template

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

August 1 - 31, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Bold first sentence. Include a short program description of 1-2 paragraphs, around 250 words. An ideal program description should provide a concise overview of the event, making it easy for potential participants to understand the value it offers. Be sure to include key details: the presenter's name, program content, location, and the program's potential benefits. […]

Effortless Mindfulness Embodied: Awakening, Glimpse by Glimpse

With Loch Kelly

August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Apply here to attend What would the world be like if each of us discovered for ourselves how to live an awakened life? Awakening begins with a shift out of our small, separate sense of self, to discover an “awake” consciousness that we sense has been there all along. When we begin to inhabit this […]

In These Bodies, On These Lands: Iyengar Yoga and art-making

With Jennifer Van de Pol

August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Learn Iyengar Yoga posture and breathing practices to support, enliven, and uplift your creative practice/s. Experience ways to integrate journaling/writing, drawing, and intuitive painting with movement (Asana) and breath (Pranayama) rooted in this Yoga tradition. Try out various approaches to making and moving in an encouraging, nourishing environment. As a professional artist, Jennifer’s drawings, performances, […]

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Salish Shorelines: A Saltwater Journey

With Jonas Fineman and Kai Harvey

August 3 - 8, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Join Cortes Island guides and mariners for a kayaking exploration of the Salish Sea surrounding the renowned Hollyhock Campus. Each day’s adventure offers a safe and comprehensive foray into the seascapes and histories of Desolation Sound and the Discovery Islands. Launching from various beaches around Cortes Island as well as from the 43 foot schooner […]

Nature & Nurture Yoga: Embracing Abundance

With Fiji McAlpine

August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Embrace the abundance of August in the Pacific Northwest on spectacular Cortes Island. Summer is the season to savour the fruits of the year's growth. The warm air is thick with the smell of sweet berries, and the forests are vibrant and lush. Each day you will be nourished with exquisite food, invigorated by dynamic […]

Tantra: Freedom, Embodiment, and Transformation

With Sravana Borkataky-Varma

August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Have you ever dived into the ocean of Tantra? Have you experienced the weaving of the world? Join scholar-practitioners Sravana Borkataky-Varma and Keith Edward Cantú as we explore Tantric practices and perspectives on topics like freedom from external interference and self-sovereignty (Sanskrit svādhikāra), the link between physical and so-called “subtle bodies,” and the creation of […]

Dzogchen: The Three Statements that Strike the Crucial Point

With Lama Tsultrim Allione

August 8 - 13, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

“I gained so much for my meditation practice and feel so supported and somehow I feel different in the world since then. What I experienced cannot be put into words.” - past participant The Three Statements were the final teaching of Garab Dorje, after he passed away, when he appeared in the rainbow body to […]

2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Kim Haxton

August 13 - 17, 2025
Cortes Island

Register for the 2025 Canadian Psychedelic Summit!  What to Expect Led by facilitator and ceremonial practitioner Kim Haxton, our time together will center the embodied knowledge of Indigenous peoples, creating space for ceremony, storytelling, and connection with ourselves, one another, and the natural world. With these foundations in place, we will lean into tough conversations […]

Whole Human Health

With Lawrence Cheng, MD, CCFP(EM), MPH and Devon Christie, MD, CCFP, RTC

August 17 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

The Whole Human Health Retreat is a transformative five-day journey into the science and art of optimizing well-being at every level—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Guided by Dr. Lawrence Cheng and Dr. Devon Christie, this immersive program integrates functional medicine, mind-body practices, and cutting-edge approaches like precision medicine to empower you with the tools to […]

Connecting to Source: Yoga, Meditation, Ritual

With Mara Branscombe

August 17 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Since ancient times, the human collective has aligned with the seasons, the elements, the rhythms of the sun, the moon, and the earth as a way to source pure energy and connect to one’s inner compass. The mind-body science of yoga, combined with the practice of meditation, breath-work, and the alchemy of earth based rituals […]

Authenticity in an Artificial World: Mindfulness, Emotion, and Meaning

With Dave Smith

August 17 - 22, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

As we become endlessly distracted by the artificial, the search for authenticity becomes vital. Contentment, meaning, and purpose have become fleeting ideas of a world forgotten. It does not have to be this way. The world-over is saturated with contemplative practices, structures of philosophy, and therapeutic methods that can point us directly towards personal transformation. […]

Harmony Within: A Journey of Songwriting and Reconnection

With Leah Abramson and Samantha Parton

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Songwriting is a powerful tool for self-expression and connection with our deepest thoughts and feelings. The Harmony Within workshop explores songwriting as a medium, a practice, and a journey through which we can reconnect with our creative source, our vulnerability, and our inner wisdom, harnessing the healing power of music to illuminate, transform, and transcend […]

SoulCollage®: An Enchanting Path to Inner Wisdom & Creativity

With Kimberly Lee, J.D.

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Embark on an enlightening journey of self-discovery, guided by the power of your own intuition and creativity. In this immersive workshop, you’ll discover your own inner wisdom through the unique, inspiring SoulCollage® method. This fun personal practice harnesses the magic of images, intuition, and imagination to create simple collages that represent facets of your unique […]

The Art of Leadership

With Suzanne Hawkes and Michael Bell

August 22 - 27, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Participation is by application. Click here to apply! Are you committed to making a difference in the world? In social change, socially responsible business, education, politics or community service? Learn to inspire, engage and collaborate with others in effective action to broaden the impact of your work together. Come participate in an intensive process of […]

Kindred Group Retreat

August 27 - 31, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island

Internal program page for Kindred's group retreat. Participants can book using the 'register as guest' link. This page will not go live on the website.  Daily Schedule A detailed schedule will be emailed to you about 30 days prior to your program. Click here to view a sample program schedule.  

Nourished Woman Goddess Retreat

With Abneet Kaur Sandhar

August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 1, 2025.

Aligned. Knowing. Full Bloom Radiance. Clear. Shining. Grounded. These qualities all exist within us, yet for so many women, we feel depleted and defeated. Our attention is being pulled in many different directions, with a low-grade fever of constant overwhelm. We may feel racked with guilt, shame, and comparison, constantly feeling we don't 'measure up'. […]

Psoma: Discover When the Body Says Yes

With Donna Martin & Shelley Winton

August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 1, 2025.

What if we can learn to accompany someone on their healing journey without any suggestion of something wrong, something to fix? How can we recognize healing as an inside job - the unfolding of our intrinsic and natural wholeness? How can we learn to be the kind of presence that is itself a powerful healing […]

Essential Somatics: Free Your Movement!

With Martha Peterson

August 31 - September 5, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 1, 2025.

If you have “tried everything” to relieve your chronic muscle or joint pain for the long term and have only experienced short term relief (or none at all), then this 5-day immersion is for you. Come and learn how to restore freedom of movement, resolve chronic muscle tension, so you can live more fully. Eliminating […]

Presence Psychotherapy Training: Integrate Spirituality With Trauma Work (28 CE Credits)

With Michelle Lepak

September 5 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 6, 2025.

Note: Continuing Education Credits available. See below for details. Presence Psychotherapy is a Comprehensive trauma treatment model that integrates spirituality, internal inquiry, and relational attunement to process the many layers and nuance of trauma. Presence Psychotherapy, published in the APA Journal of Integrative Psychotherapy and the International Journal of Trauma Care, provides a process that […]

Regenerative Finance - Investing in Service of Life

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute, Mike Rowlands and Michelle Lee

September 5 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 6, 2025.

To gather capital influencers and capacity builders with the ability to move capital, in a way that awakens and develops our individual and collective capabilities to think from regenerative principles, so that we invest in service to life systems.  A meaningful shift towards a regenerative economy in service of life requires key capital influences to […]

Activate: Digital Leadership 2025

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Khari Wendell McClelland

September 6 - 10, 2025
Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off campus rates! Offer valid until Jun 2, 2025.
Join the sharpest digital minds from political and advocacy campaigns, creative agencies, and progressive causes, for four days of hard-skills training in digital tactics and leadership. Gain clarity on how to intelligently activate your organization from the inside, and crack the code to engaging your target audience to win campaigns, raise money, and hit your goals.

Becoming a Spiritual Healer Level I: The Essentials (Sept. 2025)

With Julie Kramer

September 11 - 17, 2025
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 12, 2025.

Program description at external website: https://juliemkramer.com/offering/becoming-a-spiritual-healing-practitioner-level-i-the-essentials/?v=5435c69ed3bc Daily Schedule A detailed program schedule will be made available in advance of the program.

Social Venture Institute 2025 - Hollyhock

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute and Vanessa Richards

September 17 - 21, 2025
Cortes Island
Save the date for Social Venture Institute 2025 happening September 17 to 21 at the Hollyhock Campus on Cortes Island! SVI is an immersive gathering of visionary leaders and social entrepreneurs, dedicated to business as a force for positive social change. Each attendee brings a commitment of social change to their enterprise, whether a for-profit business or a non-profit organization. For almost 30 years, SVI has provided more than 3,000 entrepreneurs the opportunity to strengthen their business skills, network with other social enterprise leaders, and rejuvenate their passion and vision.

The Art of Resting Well

With Farah Nazarali

September 21 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 22, 2025.

Bring your tired and weary souls for a restful, restorative, and rejuvenating retreat that is an immersion into the art of resting well. This experiential retreat is designed to provide rest for your body, mind, and spirit through land-based and somatic practices--guided beach walks, mindful forest walking, sunset gazing, restorative yoga, yoga nidra, poetry, slow […]

Cultivating Wellbeing for Health Professionals (2025)

With Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC and Erin Burrell, MD, FRCPC

September 21 - 26, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 22, 2025.

Replenish Yourself and Gain Tools for Living with Intention Join us for this mindfulness-based meditation retreat for health professionals and partners. Come away to the serene shores of Cortes Island to be replenished, restored, and equipped with tools to help navigate life in modern healthcare. This retreat emphasizes connection as key to vitality, and fosters […]

Kintsugi: Embracing Imperfection

With Yuka Morino

September 21 - 25, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 22, 2025.

Kintsugi, 金継ぎ translated literally from Japanese means "golden joinery". This traditional Japanese art used to repair broken ceramics uses natural materials, like tree sap or urushi lacquer dusted with gold (or other precious metals) to make the cracks, or broken lines beautiful.  The cracks are called Keshiki 景色 and in Japanese, mean scenery, landscape or view. […]

Becoming a Spiritual Healer Level I: The Essentials Cohort #2, Year 1

With Julie Kramer

September 26 - October 2, 2025
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jun 27, 2025.

Program description at external website: https://juliemkramer.com/offering/becoming-a-spiritual-healing-practitioner-level-i-the-essentials/?v=5435c69ed3bc Daily Schedule A detailed program schedule will be made available in advance of the program.

Fish as Storytellers: Intangible Knowledge and Lived Practices

With Zoe Todd and Courtney Chetwynd

October 2 - 6, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 3, 2025.

Drawing inspiration from fish as storytellers in their own right, this workshop will explore storytelling, play, and artistic creation as tools for sense-making. Through interactive dialogue, collective visioning sessions, collaborative art-making, and land-based reflection, participants will explore how diverse relationships in their lives give rise to profound knowledge in storied and tacit ways. This workshop […]

From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems

With Nadia Chaney and M. Rako Fabionar

October 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.

As water serves as a nourishing, developmental flow through transpiration—absorbed by roots, carrying nutrients throughout the plant, and offering its essence through leaves into the broader ecosystem—our workshop fosters transpirational growth within communities and organizations. From Roots to Reach: Transpirational Growth for Social Ecosystems is an immersive five-day workshop designed to equip participants with diverse […]

Eldering in Times of Transformation

With Cheryl Rose, Juana Berinstein and Zhiish McKenzie

October 6 - 10, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.

“A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species.” - Carl Jung There comes a time when you find yourself, perhaps to your surprise, in a new land which is unlike any part of the long life journey you’ve made so […]

Beloved Community Bootcamp: A Training for Bridge-Builders

With Lisa Gibson and Gabe Wilson

October 6 - 11, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 7, 2025.

This 5-day immersive training is designed specifically for facilitators, coaches, and leaders who want to elevate their ability to navigate complex group dynamics and support productive inter-group exchange in an increasingly polarized world. We believe that improving your capacity to lead in these challenging times requires relating to conflict facilitation as a pathway of self-discovery. […]

Qi Medicine: A Silent Qigong and Tea Ceremony Retreat

With Stephanie Nosco and Catherine (Cat) Reynolds

October 11 - 15, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 12, 2025.

Experience the medicine of qigong, tea, and nature on this transformative inner journey back to yourself.  Join Qigong teacher, author, and psychotherapist Stephanie Nosco, alongside Tea Ceremonialist and Eco-Somatic guide Catherine Reynolds, for this special silent retreat exploring the art of Qigong and the medicine of Tea Ceremony. We will practice in social silence, encouraging […]

Wild Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness

With Jim Gouin and David Sumerlin

October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 16, 2025.

With Special Guest Paul Stamets Save the world, one mushroom at a time. Fungi, particularly mushrooms, offer powerful, practical solutions to enhance both human and ecosystem health. Through lecture, discussion, and foraging: Learn easy-to-grow cultivation methods using a hands-on approach. Gain the skills to identify at least twenty-five species of mushroom, both wild and cultivated. Delve […]

Your True Nature: A Cold Immersion & Breathwork Retreat

With Cian Dalton & Carolyn Schmidt

October 15 - 19, 2025
Hollyhock Cortes Island
Book now and get 10% off accommodation prices. Offer valid until Jul 16, 2025.

This retreat invites you to slow down, reconnect, and return to your true nature — through the embodied tools of breathwork, assisted stretching, intuitive movement, and cold immersion. In the pace of everyday life, it’s easy to lose touch with the deeper intelligence of the body. This retreat offers a spacious opportunity to breathe, move, […]

AI for Flourishing: Weaving Wisdom & Technology

With Hollyhock Leadership Institute

October 19 - 23, 2025
Cortes Island

“As we walk the tightrope of planetary-scale transformation, it's becoming clear that we need to upgrade not just our technologies and infrastructures, but our ways of relating – to ourselves, to each other and to the living planet.” - Futurecraft AI for Flourishing is a gathering of technologists, practitioners, founders, policymakers, activists, educators, and artists […]